The Rundown
A month into the second Trump administration and all levels of the government are under assault from the manchild who would be king. More planes have crashed, yet Trump continues his slash and burn of the FAA and other federal employees, despite challenges in the courts. He’s also served Ukraine on a silver platter to Putin and signaled he would allow Russia to attack our European allies.
Thankfully judges and some federal employees are standing up to him, Musk, and DOGE.
However, democratic officials have been slow to respond. But some dems like Jamie Raskin, Corry Booker, and JB Pritzker are showing signs of having a spine. But I fear it’s too little too late as Trump purges the government of anyone who won’t bend the knee.
Meanwhile, due to Trump’s tariffs and immigration policies, inflation has skyrocketed along with gas and food prices. The latter has some in trump’s base reconsidering their vote. We tried to tell ya’ll.
And speaking of voting, there is growing concern Musk, or another actor accessed the central voting machine where all votes in a state are recorded and altered them, a possibility which Intelligence and national security expert Malcolm Nance says is a possibility.
But given democratic leadership’s failure to call for recounts when questions about voting irregularities first arose, I fear this will be 2000 2.0, only this time if we learn that Kamala Harris did win it won’t matter because Trump et al will have succeeded in dismantling our government and selling our country to the highest bidder.
Our only saving grace may be this administration’s incompetence. Because for the most part democratic leadership is still AWOL.
Which leads me to this week’s theme.
The emperor is Nude and Enough is Enough
In “The Emperor’s New Clothes” a tailor cons an emperor into believing he’s made new clothes for him out of a rare, expensive and invisible fabric. And as the emperor goes about town nude, his subjects pretend he’s wearing the most magnificent outfit ever, because they fear his wraith should they point out he’s naked. Finally, a child shouts, “The Emperor has no clothes,” breaking the charade.
Last week Trump referred to himself as a king and, as with the above emperor, people are afraid to point out his faults, especially the mainstream media.
When Trump first ran, they refused to call out his lies, instead abusing the thesaurus to use any words but lie and liar. And it was this dereliction of their journalistic duty that led to his first and second term in the oval office.
Time and time again the legacy media sane washed Trump, painting him in a positive light while holding the dems to ridiculously high standards. And those that dared say the emperor had no clothes, like Jim Acosta and the Associated Press, have been barred from the White Press Room.
On the other hand, with few exceptions, democratic officials have failed to respond to this administration’s rape and pillaging of our government and democracy. Week after week, they’ve said nothing, or worse expressed a willingness to work with republicans.
What the actual fuck.
Still worse are their social media posts filled with empty platitudes and milquetoast press conferences. The only time democrats seem energized is in the billions of fundraising emails and texts I get every day.
Sorry, but no!
Enough is enough. We need a concrete plan of action from democratic leadership, or they need to get the fuck outta there.
We can’t and won’t wait until the midterms. We need action NOW. Not two years from now. Not two weeks from now. Today.
Every second we wait is another second Trump et al has to destroy our country.
The emperor is nude and a demented fascist, and no amount of spin or sane washing will ever change that. Stand up or be stomped down.
Until next week, stay safe and don’t let Cheeto Benito grind ya down.